Chiefland property owners will get a break on taxes again this year as the city commission voted unanimously on Monday to stick with the 4.75 millage it has had for three years. As a result, the city will take in less money in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 and that had some business men voicing concerns that the city is on the wrong financial path.

An 87-year-old Levy County resident was found dead outside a convenience store after he went into the store at Northeast 140th Court and U.S. Hwy. 27A, asked the clerk to call 911 and exited the store. The man, whose wife died recently, had a gunshot wound to his head, according to the Levy County Sheriff's Office report. The man told the store clerk officers were to first go to his home near the store. When they did, they found a note he had left. The case is being investigated as a suicide.

Chiefland Fire Rescue was among several departments that responded to a blaze at a barn on County Road 124 across the street from the Levy County Quilt Museum at 4 a.m. Sunday. The barn and its contents — heart pine boards — were destroyed by the blaze. Chiefland Fire Chief James Harris said it was decided to let the blaze burn.